[And she's willing to try to explain, though it's hard to find a way to put it in terms he might understand. Or so she thinks, anyway.]
It's less like a claim, more like a requirement? You are expected to stay within your boundaries, which includes not trying to rise too far above your station, so most people stick to the color of their blood. I could wear green if I wanted, probably, but I would still have to announce myself as a rustblood somehow. If that makes sense.
[She unbuttons her coat a little bit, though it's cold to her, pulling it open just enough to show him the burgandy Ares symbol embroidered neatly on the shoulder of her cardigan.]
It gets a little more complicated than that, too. Each troll has a symbol that belongs to them, and their ancestors. Which are hard to explain- they are to us what your parents are to you, in that they are our close genetic matches, and they come before us, but so far in the past we never knew them. Anyway. So say I did wear green! I would probably just find a way to stitch my symbol into my clothes, in my blood color, where people could see, so they would know I wasn't trying to pass myself off as higher up the spectrum than I am. People used to get in real trouble for impersonating other hemochromes. It was considered treasonous. Does all that make sense?
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It's less like a claim, more like a requirement? You are expected to stay within your boundaries, which includes not trying to rise too far above your station, so most people stick to the color of their blood. I could wear green if I wanted, probably, but I would still have to announce myself as a rustblood somehow. If that makes sense.
[She unbuttons her coat a little bit, though it's cold to her, pulling it open just enough to show him the burgandy Ares symbol embroidered neatly on the shoulder of her cardigan.]
It gets a little more complicated than that, too. Each troll has a symbol that belongs to them, and their ancestors. Which are hard to explain- they are to us what your parents are to you, in that they are our close genetic matches, and they come before us, but so far in the past we never knew them. Anyway. So say I did wear green! I would probably just find a way to stitch my symbol into my clothes, in my blood color, where people could see, so they would know I wasn't trying to pass myself off as higher up the spectrum than I am. People used to get in real trouble for impersonating other hemochromes. It was considered treasonous. Does all that make sense?